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Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
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Know your facts about the Elizabethan Era.
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What was life like?
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Who ruled?
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How was it for women?
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Why read Shakespeare?
Know your characters:
Benvolio
Paris
Balthasar
Romeo
Friar Lawrence
Juliet
Lord Capulet
Tybalt
Lady Capulet
Apothecary
Lord Montague
Nurse
Lady Montague
Friar John
Prince Escalus
Chorus
Mercutio
Know the basic plot and key scenes
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Know key quotes:
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Act I
1.
“If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
2.
“But Montague is bound as well as I,
In penalty alike; and ‘tis not hard, I think’
For men so sold as we to keep the peace.”
3.
“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.”
4.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
5.
“If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”
6.
“You kiss by the book.”
7.
“Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.”
8.
“His name is Romeo, and a Montague,
The only son of your great enemy.”
9.
“My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
Act II: Who Said It?
1.
“But soft! What light through yonder window
breaks?
It is the East, and Julit is the sun!”
2.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
3.
“’Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name
Belonging to a man.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet?”
4.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
5.
“Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here!
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
Sosoon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
6.
“For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’rancor to pure love.”
7.
“Bid her devise
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon
And there she shall at Friar Laurence’ cell
Be shrived and marrie. Here is for thy pains.
8.
“I am aweary, give me leave awhile.
Fie, how my bones ache! What a jounce have
I!”
9.
“Therefore love moderately: long love doth so:
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
Act III: Who Said It?
1.
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire,
The dy is hot, the Capulets are abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood
stirring.”
2.
“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rae
To such a greeting. Villain am I none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.”
3.
“Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?”
4.
“I am hurt.
A plague a’ both houses! I am sped.”
5.
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me
a grave man.”
6.
“Romeo, away, be gone!
The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.
Stand not amazed. The prince will doom thee
death
If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away!”
7.
“Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”
8.
“Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!
O prince! O cousin! Husband! O, the blood is
spilled
Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
For blood of our shed blood of Montague.
O cousin, cousin!”
9.
“He is a kinsman to the Montague;
Affection makes him false, he speaks not true.
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give.
Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.”
10.
Ah, weraday! He’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead!
We are undone, lady, we are undone!
Alack the day! He’s gone, he’s killed, he’s
dead!”
11.
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yetn ear day.
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.”
12.
“O god, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookst pale.”
13.
“My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us
blest
That God had lent us but this only child;
But now I see this one is one too much,
And that we have a curse in having her.
Out on her, hilding!”
Act IV: Who Said It?
1. “Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered
it.”
By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here
To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you!
Hence forward I am ever ruled by you.”
2. “No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou
livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life;
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, still and stark and cold, appear like
death;”
4. “My heart is wondrous light,
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
3. “Where I have learnt me to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoined
7. “Death lies upon her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
5. “Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee.”
6. “Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!
O well-a-day that ever I was born!
Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady!”
Act V: Who Said It?
1. “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
(Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to
think!)
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”
Thou are not conquered.”
6. “Here’s to my love! O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”
2. “Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument,
7. “Come, come away.
Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
And Paris too.Come, I’ll dispose of thee
Amond a sisterhood of holy nuns.”
3. “There is thy gold—worse poison to men’s
souls,
doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor componds that thou mayst not
sell.”
8. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy
dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
4. “This is that banished haughty Montague
That murd’red my love’s cousin—with which
grief
It is supposed the fair creature died—
And here is come to do some villainous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.”
5. “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy
breath,
Hath had no power yet uponthy beauty.
9. “Romeo, there dead, was husband to that
Juliet;
And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful
wife.”
10. “O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more
Can I demand.”
11. “For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”